John Burdon Sanderson Haldane Quotes

Without choice, you have no innovation. Without innovation, you have nothing.

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

… there must be free play for so-called subversive ideas - every idea subverts the old to make way for the new. To shut off subversion is to shut off peaceful progress and to invite revolution and war.

The man with a new idea is a crank until his idea succeeds.

The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.

Every really new idea looks crazy at first.

Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act.

If you ever have a new idea, and it's really new, you have to expect that it won't be widely accepted immediately. It's a long hard process.

The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd.

I want to work on things that aren't self-evident, to propose things that are radically different and game-changing.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

I always tend to favor the newer idea.

I believe in being an innovator.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.

We need innovation and creativity.

Imagine something new, or you will only go where you have been.

It's all about evolution and for us, we try to think outside the box and not try to duplicate what we've done in the past.

You cannot imprison an idea. You have to fight it with a better idea.

Innovation actually demands freedom and freedom demands innovation.

Everybody's trying to repeat the past with the new network, with new devices and new tools. Why not make something brand-new?

The big deal for me has always been innovation.

Don't let tradition paralyze your mind. Be receptive to new ideas. Be experimental. Try new approaches. Be progressive in everything you do.

All invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met.